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On the recordSeptember 30, 1980
I believe that what we've done in the economic area so far has minimized the damage caused by uncontrollable and unpredictable change in American buying habits.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Flint, Michigan Interview With Joe Stroud and Remer Tyson of the Detroit Free Press

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Sep 15, 2009

But when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the President of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kind of things are beyond the bounds of the way presidents have ever been accepted even with people who disagree.

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